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The Quarry – your thoughts please
October 1st, 2008 | community organising, landcare + faunacare
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While, I dont want to frustrate the process at all, I still have concerns that there needs to be a hoop for basketball and a wall for hitting a ball up against a bit like a fifes court, more active opportunities.
It is skill development and team sport fun practise at an informal level that is applicable at this Neighbourhood level. If you think this is better dealt with at Princes St School or some other venue than OK. But it would have been very useful for 7-15 year olds to have a place to develop their skills on an informal basis.
I also think that an opportunity for bike riding and jumping like using BMX’s could be usefully incorporated. This really doesn’t have to sophisticated so much as some appropraite piles and a track.
I had also thought that we discussed a levelled area again for ball play. I just hope this has not been lost in the interst of urban design. I am a bit concerned abut the need to have a barrier that retains balls,so that they don’t end up on the road too frequently. It is useful to have aplace to practise ball handling set up some stumps play a casual game etc.
I have to say it takes an awful long time to get from idea to implementation. It really is a bit like the speed hump saga, it seems ages ago that this was started and it has gone thru’ so many iterations when we originally just wanted some resources a working bea and a Bobcat to spread some things around and create an approprite surface. To mne it all loks like a pice of nice sculpture but I wonder is this the public place we relaly want. I think what else it could be and I think of the possibility of it actually being a place whre some things a re established to be productive and communal, natural valuestaken into consideration, rock climbing, relaxation activities and permaculture introduced.
Am I out of touch with the requirements of the time?
I think a few of us are keen on a modest sized ball playing area.
For some sporting activities the site would not work, because balls would too easily go out onto the road.
But a volley ball square near the wire fence would be far enough away not to cause any hazard.
A space where adults and teenagers can have a bit of physical fun.
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